Covid-19 pandemic and related employment protection policies on the labor market outcomes of recent university graduates. We … find that both males and females are less likely to be employed during the pandemic year, with more pronounced employment … losses for females. While gender differences in employment arise from females' high skill employment losses, becoming …

skills upon graduation. Such contracts incentivise employment creation, as firms benefit from lower wages and tax reductions … employment episode is through a nonsubsidised temporary contract. We look at short, medium and long-term effects on job stability …

refugees. The program has immediate and substantial short-run effects on employment, corresponding to around 15 percentage …-run employment level of about 50 percent. We show that the program boosts language skills in the short run, and that this channel … explains an increasing share of the effect on employment. Using survey data, we finally measure if the program affects …

We assess the effects of a sharp minimum wage increase on wages, informality, and employment in Turkey, a large …, we find no negative employment effects. However, we show that the minimum wage increase may have caused an increase in … the share of informal employment among workers with less than tertiary education, especially for such workers working for …

of routine employment and its consequent impacts on inequality. …

In this paper we explore the link between firm labour productivity and the introduction of the NMW over a more than ten … data to calculate firm-specific labour productivity measures and then aggregate them to the level of the low-paying sectors …, aggregate LPC sector labour productivity has been significantly positively affected by the NMW in the long run; the effects …

: distorted employment decisions, increased productivity, and higher exit rates. Our empirical analysis, using a novel dataset and …% points higher annual productivity growth, and a 3.6% points higher probability of exit for firms with binding employment …This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms …

The impact of four labour market policies – employment protection legislation, minimum wages, parental leave and … unemployment benefits – on productivity is examined here, using annual cross-country aggregate data on these policies and industry …-level data on productivity from 1979 to 2003. We use a "difference-in-differences" framework, which exploits likely differences …

employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …

This paper investigates the impact of tourism policy on employment, using the Tourism Development Policy (TDP … tourism employment in Salta by an average of 11 percent per year, for an overall impact of around 112 percent between 2003 and …